Crossword clues for rothschild
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rich person," 1833, in reference to the international banking family descended from Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) of Frankfurt. The surname is literally "red shield," a house name.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1988
Land area (2000): 6.513328 sq. miles (16.869442 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.357389 sq. miles (0.925632 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.870717 sq. miles (17.795074 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69725
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.881718 N, 89.620670 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54474
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rothschild
Wikipedia
Rothschild ( German Rotschild [rot Schild]: ), meaning "red shield", is a surname derived from a house distinguished with a red shield ( Middle High German and New High German rot (or roth)= "red" + schild = "shield"), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century.
The German surname "Rothschild" is not related to the Scottish/ Irish surname of "Rothchilds" from the United Kingdom.
The Rothschild egg is a jewelled, enameled, decorated egg that was made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé by the workshop of Michael Perchin in 1902. Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild presented this egg to Germaine Halphen upon her engagement to Béatrice's younger brother, Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild.
Rothschild is a German surname. It may also refer to:
Usage examples of "rothschild".
She had cleaned out the University branch of Rothschild and Tanaka, Moneychangers, of their entire stock of Cottman currency.
He found that the European central banks existed long before the House of Rothschild, and that powerful Catholic and Protestant banking firms have shared the European financial market with them.
Rudy Rosen, the driver – a round man with soft hands fixed to the wheel – was a private banker to the mafias, a would-be Rothschild who catered to Moscow's most primitive capitalists.
Rudy Rosen, the driver - a round man with soft hands fixed to the wheel - was a private banker to the mafias, a would-be Rothschild who catered to Moscow's most primitive capitalists.
Through a flow of cool dry air that pumped ceaselessly from ceiling vents, Fric followed a narrow dome-vaulted passageway of Pinot Noir to a wider groin-vaulted corridor of Cabernet, circled a curiously coved grotto of Lafitte Rothschild stocked with various vintages, continued through a tunnel of Merlot, in search of a place where he would be able to hide without fear of discovery.
Though how he managed to delude the Rothschild Personnel Bureau is a matter under the strictest scrutiny, I can assure you.